Packing-box.



No. 680,930. Patented Aug. 20, [90L 13. W. LEWIS.

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(App! cation filed. May 11, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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CHARLES W. LElVIS, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

PACKING-BOX.

SPQEGIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 680,930, dated August 20, 1901.

Application filed May 11,1900. Serial No. 16,299. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Packing- Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in packing-boxes, with the object in view of providing a packing-box for general commercial use which shall be light, cheap, and well adapted to protect the goods from damage.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View of the box in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a section. Fig. 8 is a top plan view with the top side removed, and Fig. 4 is a view in detail of one of the panels.

The box to which my present invention relates is distinguished from a trunk and a crate, both of which are built for special uses, and is what has come to be known in the art as a packing-box, intended for general use in freighting and expressing goods of all characters where it is desirable that they should be protected against moisture and, as far as possible, from breakage by contact with adjacent boxes or other objects. In a box of this character it has become of the highest importance that they should be as light as possible in order to save the expense of expressage and freight, and at the same time sufficiently strong to protect the goods against damage, and so cheap withal that they may be utilized without adding unreasonably to the cost of the articles shipped therein. With these requirements in View I have invented the box a sample of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The body of the box is composed of panels, one for each of the six walls of the box, and they are intended to be shipped in their knockdown condition, lying flat one upon another, so as to occupy as little room as possible in storage and shipment. Each panel comprises a thin central portion composed of paper backed by wood and a framework extending along the margin of the thin portion. The Wood backing of the thin portion is denoted by A, its paper face by I3, and the narrow wood frame along its margin by C. The wood backing A may be and is preferably what is known as shaved wood, although it may consist of thin sawed or split boards an eighth of an inch thick, more or less, and, while preferably free from checks, cracks, and knots, may be successfully utilized even where it is of this inferior quality, because of the paper facing B, which is of a tough waterproof paper of any well-known or approved kind, such as is at present on the market either as sheathing or wrapping paper. This paper facing B will effectually close the checks, cracks, and knot-holes on the inside, as well as the joints at the corners, when the box is set up for use. The paper may be nailed onto the inner face of the frame or may be secured thereto by any suitable gum. In fastening the paper to the wood it is secured tightly to the wood along its margin, but is left loose from the wood throughout the central portion, so that even though the wood shrink or become cracked by a blow from an adjacent object the paper face will still remain intact and thoroughly protect the goods.

The paper costs but little. Its wood backing because of the possibility of using wood of an inferior quality is quite inexpensive, and the two (the paper and the wood) make a panel which is very light and strong.

In use the paper forms a moisture-tight protection for the goods, while the wood at its back protects the paper against damage from knocks which the boxes may receive from an adjacent object.

To further add to the stiffness of the box when the panels are assembled, I arrange the wood composing the different panels with the grai n in one panel runningin a direction transverse to that in another panel. For example, assuming that the grain of the wood A in the panel P extends horizontally as the box is shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, then the grain of the wood backing A in the panel P adjacent to the panel P would be made to extend up and down in a direction across that of the panel P. r

The knockdown box constructed as above has the advantages which pertain to the wooden box, as well as those which pertain to the paper box, and can be furnished cheaper than a corresponding box made from either paper, pulp, or wood, and is very light.

That I claim is- A knockdown packing-box composed of panels each panel consisting of paper backed In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 10 by wood, the combined paper and wood being my invention I have signed my name, in pressecured to a marginal frame and the paper once of two witnesses, this 9th day of May, loose from the wood throughout the central 1900.

[" r 5 portion of the panel, whereby the linin is i constructed and arranged to constitute an CHARLES additional intact wall in case of breakage in Witnesses:

the wood portion of the wall, substantially as FREDK. HAYNES, set forth. EDWARD VIESER. 

